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=The People Behind MusicBrainz=

==About==

The following are short biographies of some of the people behind MusicBrainz. There are developers who write the software for the web site and client applications, system administrators who keep the servers running, style editors who edit the style guidelines, and editors who add to and improve the accuracy of the data itself, but all of them contribute their efforts to help make MusicBrainz work better for everyone.

==People==

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| rowspan="2" | [[Image:rob_75.jpg]] || '''Robert Kaye''' [ MB: Editor:rob | IRC: ruaok | Wiki: [[User:RobertKaye|RobertKaye]] | [http://www.mayhem-chaos.net/ Home] | [http://www.mayhem-chaos.net/blog.html Blog] | [http://mayhem-chaos.net/wishlist.html Wishlist] ]
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| Robert is the founder and lead developer for MusicBrainz, and President and Executive Director of the [http://metabrainz.org/about/ MetaBrainz Foundation], the non-profit organization that pays the bills for MusicBrainz. [[User:RobertKaye/OfficialBio|Read more]]...
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| rowspan="2" | [[Image:luks_75.jpg]] || '''Lukáš Lalinský''' [ MB: Editor:lukz | IRC: luks | Wiki: [[User:LukasLalinsky|LukasLalinsky]] | Last.fm: [http://www.last.fm/user/lukz/ lukz] ]
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| Lukáš is the current maintainer of [[Picard Tagger|Picard tagger]]. Since 2007 he has started some serious work on the [[Server|server]], [[libtunepimp]] and [[libmusicbrainz]]. [[User:LukasLalinsky/OfficialBio|Read more]]...
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| rowspan="2" | [[Image:dave_75.jpg]] || '''David Evans''' [ MB: Editor:djce | IRC: djce | Wiki: [[User:DaveEvans|DaveEvans]] | [http://djce.org.uk/ Home] ]
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| Dave is the primary maintainer of the MusicBrainz servers ([http://musicbrainz.org/mrtg/ stats]) and makes sure that they run smoothly. Since Q4/2005, he stepped down from the position of the server [[Server Development|main developer]], but continues to make major contributions to the MusicBrainz service. [[User:DaveEvans/OfficialBio|Read more]]...
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| rowspan="2" | [[Image:template_75.jpg]] || '''Aurélien Mino''' [ MB: Editor:murdos | IRC: murdos | Wiki: [[User:murdos|murdos]] | Last.fm: [http://www.last.fm/user/murdos/ murdos] ]
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| Aurélien is one of the developers working on [[Server|MusicBrainz Server]]. Some of his contributions have been adding ''Subscriptions to editors'' and [[Rating System|Ratings]]
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| rowspan="2" | [[Image:matt_75.jpg]] || '''Matthias Friedrich''' [ MB: Editor:matt | IRC: yalaforge | Wiki: [[User:MatthiasFriedrich|MatthiasFriedrich]] | Last.fm: [http://www.last.fm/user/yalaforge/ yalaforge] ]
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| Matthias Friedrich has worked on several of the MusicBrainz subprojects. His latest contributions include the design of the new REST-based [[XML Web Service|web service]] (which rendered his position as the local RDF and Semantic Web guru obsolete) as well as the official python client library, [[python-musicbrainz2|PythonMusicBrainz2]]. [[User:MatthiasFriedrich/OfficialBio|Read more]]...
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| rowspan="2" | [[Image:template_75.jpg]] || '''Oliver Charles''' [ MB: Editor:acid2 | IRC: acid2 | Wiki: [[User:OliverCharles|OliverCharles]] | Last.fm: [http://www.last.fm/user/acid2/ acid2] ]
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| Oliver was first introduced to [[MusicBrainz]] development through the 2008 Google [http://code.google.com/soc Summer of Code] project. Taking on the ambitious work of rewrtiting [[MusicBrainz Server|MusicBrainzServer]] to use Catalyst and Template Toolkit, along with various other newer technologies, Oliver was hired by Rob in October to continue his work.
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==The MusicBrainz Community==

MusicBrainz wouldn't be the same without its user community. See the [http://musicbrainz.org/topmods.html top editors list] for a list of people who've contributed the most number of edits. Most of these users are [[Auto-Editor|AutoEditor]]s, too. Of course, this is not the only way, others who contributed less edits may have shared their knowledge about specific artists in the database, or helped building the community, etc. Quite a number of users who have made contributions to the wiki have created their own Wiki page. See a list the pages which have the, and if you haven't created one of your own, don't hesitate to do so...

==Honorable Mentions==

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| rowspan="2" | [[Image:keschte_75.jpg]] || '''Stefan Kestenholz''' [ MB: Editor:keschte | IRC: keschte | Wiki: [[User:Keschte|Keschte]] | Last.fm: [http://www.last.fm/user/g0llum/ g0llum] | [http://muerggu.ch Web] ]
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| Stefan Kestenholz (Keschte, or ''g0llum before 05/2006''), was one of the major [[MusicBrainz Contributor|contributors]] to the [[Server|MusicBrainz Server]], and has found his way from improving the [[JavaScript]] parts of the server (He is the one responsible for the [[Guess Case|GuessCase]] script, and the [[Edit Suite|EditSuite]]) to create new features of the '''mb_server'''. [[User:Keschte/OfficialBio|Read more]]...
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| rowspan="2" | [[Image:wolfsong_75.jpg]] || '''Cristov Russell''' [ MB: Editor:wolfsong | IRC: wolfsong | Wiki: [[User:WolfSong|WolfSong]] | Last.fm: [http://www.last.fm/user/wolfsong wolfsong] ]
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| Cristov, besides being the first official [[WikiDocs]] [[Transclusion Editor|TransclusionEditor]], had a particular interest in Advanced Relationships issues; he can frequently be found participating in extensive discussions on the mailing lists. [[User:WolfSong/OfficialBio|Read more]]...
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| rowspan="2" | [[Image:donredman_75.jpg]] || '''Christoph Koenig''' [ MB: Editor:donredman | IRC: donredman | Wiki: [[User:DonRedman|DonRedman]] | Last.fm: [http://www.last.fm/user/donredman/ donredman] | [http://3qe.de/ Home] ]
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| Christoph, better known to brainzers as [[User:DonRedman|DonRedman]], was MusicBrainz' resident expert on social issues and organizational development. He has contributed a lot of work to the [[Wiki Home|MusicBrainz Wiki]], and to the [[WikiDocs]] project. He was also the secretary of the [[Style Council|StyleCouncil]]. Though he is not doing much there, having helped the Council to somehow kind of run by itself (finally!). [[User:DonRedman/OfficialBio|Read more]]...
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| rowspan="2" | [[Image:dupuy_75.jpg]] || '''Alexander Dupuy''' [ MB: Editor:dupuy | IRC: dupuy | Wiki: [[User:Dupuy|Dupuy]] | Last.fm: - ]
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| Alex organized the MusicBrainz [[Style Council|StyleCouncil]], responsible for editing the style guidelines used by editors when entering and updating the data in MusicBrainz. He led an effort to correct the many foreign language entries that were [[Misencoding FAQ|misencoded]], and largely as a result is one of our [http://musicbrainz.org/topmods.html top editors]. Although there is no official top-20 list for this, Alex is the editor with the [http://musicbrainz.org/user/subscriptions.html?user=38240 most subscribed artists] (> 2100) (the vast majority being [[International Artists|InternationalArtists]]). [[User:Dupuy/OfficialBio|Read more]]...
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| rowspan="2" | [[Image:template_75.jpg]] || '''Neil Cafferkey''' [ MB: Editor:neil | IRC: neil | Wiki: - | Last.fm: - ]
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| Neil was our first Style Dude, who was instrumental in setting up and evolving our style guidelines. Of course, Neil is one of our top editors.
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| rowspan="2" | [[Image:tma_75.jpg]] || '''Tarragon M. Allen''' [ MB: Editor:tma | IRC: tma | Wiki: [[User:TarragonAllen|TarragonAllen]] | Last.fm: - ]
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| Tarragon was our second [[Style Dude|StyleDude]], helping to develop and extend the official [[Style Guideline|StyleGuideline]]s, and worked with [[User:DonRedman|DonRedman]] to migrate the guidelines to the MusicBrainz Wiki. [[User:TarragonAllen/OfficialBio|Read more]]...
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| rowspan="2" | [[Image:template_75.jpg]] || '''John Carter''' [ MB: Editor:zeroGravitas | IRC: - | Wiki: [[User:JohnCarter|JohnCarter]] | Last.fm: [http://www.last.fm/user/zeroGravitas/ zeroGravitas] ]
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| John the person responsible for maintaining our [[Mailing List|MailingList]]s. John's first contribution towards [[MusicBrainz Development|MusicBrainzDevelopment]] has been the migration of the Wiki content to [[Moin Moin|MoinMoin]].
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<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">.. Since 2000, when MusicBrainz was created, lots of people came, and left the project again. Therefore, the list of people which were mentioned on previous versions of this page was moved to [[MusicBrainz Contributors|MusicBrainzContributors]]. ''Since it is impossible to keep this list up-to-date, we don't even try...''
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